Chapter 10
Panthro stood in the conference room with Lynx-O, Snarf, and Snarfer. WilyKat was told to keep an eye out for the others. They hadn't wanted to vacate Third Earth but due to the situation, they didn't have much of a choice. The Warrior Maidens had assumed positions inside the Tower of Omens and Cat's Lair until Thunderians from New Thundera arrived.
"The Book of Omens told me to use the Thunder-Granter. Somehow I can bring them back but I have to be careful for what I wish. I don't know exactly what that meant." Panthro said.
"It is not what you ask for but how you ask for it." Lynx-O had a concerned look on his face. "You have to be very specific. So perhaps you should wish that Lion-O and Cheetara return to us as they were before the incident."
"Could that trigger Mumm-Ra forcing the volcano to erupt again?" The panther wondered.
"Ohh not that, snarfer, snarfer." Snarfer voiced his opinion.
"We have to get Lion-O and Cheetara back." Snarf whined. Panthro took a deep breath. No matter how he worded his wish things could turn out badly but he had to try if he wanted to see his friends again.
"All right. I've made my decision." He said. The panther picked up the Thunder-Granter from the table and placed it to his eye.
Mumm-Ra watched his cauldron as he waited to see what the ThunderCat would say. He had made the Thunder-Granter to do the opposite, so if Panthro wanted to bring Lion-O and Cheetara back to life, he wasn't sure what it would do. Seeing as it couldn't kill someone that was already dead, where did that put them?
"Mighty Thunder-Granter," Panthro started, "I wish for you to bring Lion-O and Cheetara back to life, bring them to us." At first nothing happened and Mumm-Ra laughed. Perhaps the opposite of bringing them back was leaving them where they were. However, his evil maniacal laughter stopped when the sky suddenly turned a dark and thunder boomed. Lightening struck and then in the fields there were two familiar figures. The sky cleared and everything was as it was before. Mumm-Ra watched his cauldron bubble as a new picture formed. His laughter once again rang out as he saw what had transpired. It wasn't what he was expecting but it would certainly do. Quickly, the ever-living source of evil transformed and took to the sky.
"Did it work?" Snarfer asked.
"Well I don't see them." Panthro said putting the Thunder-Granter back on the table. That's when WilyKat came running into the room.
"You guys had better come and take a look at this." He said. Quickly the group got up from their seats and ran to the control room.
"What am I looking at?" Panthro asked as he stared at the video screen.
"The spot that the lightening struck." Kat adjusted the angle of the sensor by punching up the correct code.
"Sweet Jaga." The words were barely out of Snarf's mouth as Panthro, Lynx-O, and Snarfer, raced from the room. Quickly the three piled into the ThunderTank and headed out to the coordinates that WilyKat sent them for the control computer.
"I guess you weren't kidding when you said I had to be careful." Panthro tried to break the silence that had overtaken the tank. Lynx-O just smiled and said,
"Well that will teach you to not listen to your elders. Anyway I wasn't expecting for them to land the furthest possible distance from the Lair." The two chuckled.
"I guess we weren't expecting them to be in the condition they're in either." Panthro said as the two stopped their laughter. It was no laughing matter, especially when a blip in the shape of Mumm-Ra appeared on their radar.
To Be Continued…